Rein-holder.



PATENTED MAR. 29, 1904.

P. K. BARCLAY. REIN HOLDER.

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Patented March 29, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE- on ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

REIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,990, dated March 29, 1904.

Application filed August 26, 1903.

T whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHALAURIS K. BARCLAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis,State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rein-Holders, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in rein holders; and it consists of the novel construction, combination, and arrangement I a vehicle whereby the reins may be readily secured and released from the dashboard without injury to the dashboard.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the dashboard. 2indicates the patent-leather covering; 3, one of frame-rods, and 4 indicates a U-shaped spring-metal clamping-piece which is provided with a depression 5 and offset 6. The free ends of said piece 4 are secured together by means of a metal strip 7, said strip being secured to said free ends by means of rivets 8. The piece 7 is of the contourof the frame 3, and when my invention is in use the piece? rests snugly against the frame 3, thereby taking the pressure off of the free ends of the pieces 4, which would come in contact with the patent-leather covering 2;otherwise the free end of said piece 4 would mar and tear holes in the patent-leather covering 2.

9 indicates one member of a clamp by means of which the piece 4 is securedto the dash- Serial No. 170,883. (No model.)

board. 10 indicates the mating member of said clamp. The members 9 and 10 are perforated, the former with a smooth perforation, the latter with a screw-threaded perforation, the said members being clamp-held together by means of a screw or bolt 11. The member 10 is fastened to the piece 4 by means of a rivet 12.

In applying my invention to the dashboard it is onlynecessary to perforate the patentleather covering just below the frame 3, the clamp 9 being located on the outside of the dashboard and the spring-metal clamping-wire 4 and the member 10 located on the inside of the dashboard, the depression 5 and piece 7 normally resting on the frame 3 on the inside thereof.

My rein-holder may be applied to the top of the dashboard, as illustrated, or it may be applied to either end. In holding the rein it is only necessary to bring same between the wire clamp 4 and the inside of the frame '3, as illustrated in Fig. 1, the reins being indicated by 13. In use the reins are held in three places by being in contact with the top of the dashboard and by both branches of the metal clamping-piece 4.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim is A rein holder, comprising a U shaped spring-metal clamping-wire 4, the same being provided with a recess 5 and offset 6, a curved piece 7 and a clamp composed of members 9 and 10, the member 10 being secured to the wire 4 by means of a rivet 12, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHALAURIS K. BARCLAY.

Witnesses:

M. G. IRION, JOHN C. HIGDON. 

